Utter exhaustion. La Scala rehearsals today from 3:00 PM until 1:30 AM. Simon Boccanegra and Macbeth. Macbeth opens Tuesday night. President and Mrs. Ford, Henry Kissinger, the President of Italy and every name in Washington will be there. I am a Scottish solider in the finale. Tonight was dress piano rehearsal. Standing for hours in leggings, leg bands, arm bands, calf length velvet kits, brass armor front and back, fake beard and wig, plus a suffocating brass helmet. Compete with sword. My whole part is to climb a giant stairway in back of the set with a six-foot tree, which when placed in position becomes part of the forest out of which all the soldiers come running brandishing swords– and run offstage. Then, the actual finale when we march onstage and simply stand at attention.
September 4th, 1976
September 4th, 1976
September 4th, 1976
Utter exhaustion. La Scala rehearsals today from 3:00 PM until 1:30 AM. Simon Boccanegra and Macbeth. Macbeth opens Tuesday night. President and Mrs. Ford, Henry Kissinger, the President of Italy and every name in Washington will be there. I am a Scottish solider in the finale. Tonight was dress piano rehearsal. Standing for hours in leggings, leg bands, arm bands, calf length velvet kits, brass armor front and back, fake beard and wig, plus a suffocating brass helmet. Compete with sword. My whole part is to climb a giant stairway in back of the set with a six-foot tree, which when placed in position becomes part of the forest out of which all the soldiers come running brandishing swords– and run offstage. Then, the actual finale when we march onstage and simply stand at attention.